Life imitates SF

[peteryoung]

World Solar Car Race begins, 3,000km across the Australian desert.  (REALPLAYER/WMP)

Japan stages Robot Olympics. Some may find images of a grown woman petting her robot dog disturbing.  (REALPLAYER/WMP)

Moore's Law still applies: hand-held supercomputers on the way.

Linked to from everywhere, including here: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have made a working Dalek out of a pumpkin (video). And a Cylon.

Comments

[andrewducker]

The handheld supercomputer thing pisses me off.

Any handheld computer is a supercomputer from 15 years previously.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Indeed, if it doesn't weigh more than 10 tons, need a special room and a team of acolytes, it ain't a supercomputer.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

a working Dalek

For not too literal a meaning of "working", I hope.

Actually, it's a sort of inside-out Dalek, isn't it? Organic outside, machine inside.